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I'm not convinced that I'm more secure because of them. The argument could be made that in some respects you are in more danger. Not only do incidents such as
by NathanKP 17y ago
I'm not convinced that I'm more secure because of them.
The argument could be made that in some respects you are in more danger. Not only do incidents such as these promote hate of the US by other countries and terrorism, but many of these soldiers end up badly mentally damaged because of the post traumatic stress disorder from the things they took part in over there. There have been multiple incidents where former soldiers snap and go on killing rampages.
War just trades one kind of danger for another. At best it just keeps the majority of the danger in another country.
- sigstoat 17y agomultiple incidents? i don't recall hearing of even one in US soldiers returning from the gulf. perhaps the media didn't cover them. regardless, the question that follows is whether or not that rate is higher than the rate of postal workers doing similar things.
- NathanKP 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks - Committed by a Gulf War veteran. This is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, but I remember several other incidents through the years in which a former soldier shot up a public place or killed innocent civilians here in the US. I can't offer any statistics about the relative percentage when compared with postal workers, but it would be interesting to see, I think.